Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-03-05 | Page 3 | Carnegie Gives $25,000 in Return for Old Favor

I CARNEGIE GIVES $25,000 IN RETURN FOR OLD FAVOR NEW YORK. March -1. Out of gratitude grati-tude for an obligation rendered to him many years ago. Andrew Carnegie has given $25,000 to Mrs. Henry Sanger. Snow, whose husband, formerly treasurer treas-urer of the Now York and Now Jorscy Telephone company, is a fugitive from justice. Snow is charged with tho embezzlement em-bezzlement of $'J5I,000, and when he disappeared, dis-appeared, his wife and three children were left williou; other resources than an appeal to n-Jatives for aid. Much publicity followed Snow's defalcation, de-falcation, :uwi it was then that Mr. Carnegie remembered tho favor of the times of long ago. It had been rendered ren-dered him, as a matter of fact, by Mrs. Snow's father, David Brooks, a wealthy rnanufactiin'r and banker of 'Baltimore, who died about twenty years ago. Mr. Carnegie was a poor boy in western Pennsylvania, struggling to mako his way, when Mr. Brooks came to his aid. What the service was or what tho amount, no one concerned would reveal. re-veal. Mrs, Snow declared that, she never Ins known the nature of th0 obligation, obliga-tion, as she had no acquaintance with Mr. Carnegie, and her father never mentioned the subject. 11 er first knowledge of the benefaction benefac-tion was when she received word that the $2.1,000 had been deposited to her credit in a New Ycrk bank and that she was tree to draw upon it whenever she pleased. Before Snow disappeared it -was asserted as-serted thai, he had obtained possession i "Is lorine. amounting i0 about $.10,000, and had used it in an effort to save himsolf by plunging in Wal Slret. lie failed to get on I ho right sulo of tne market, and cvery-thing cvery-thing was swept away. J